Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
BI
Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8 View details
1. Finding Square Roots
Continue to next subchapter

Exercise 32 Page 379

Remember the order of operations.

14

Practice makes perfect
To evaluate the given numeric expression, we need to remember the order of operations. The acronym PEMDAS can help with that!
pemdas
Let's now consider our expression.

( sqrt(9))^2 + 5 We first need to simplify the value of the expression in the parentheses. We can use inverse operations to evaluate the power and eliminate the square root. Remembering the properties of inverse operations, we can now write that ( sqrt(9))^2=9. ( sqrt(9))^2+5 inverse operations ⟶ 9+5 Now we can finish evaluating our expression by adding the remaining terms. 9+5 ⇔ 14